SigiDoc ID: s-PrYG5d
Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-jcwLAH
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Weight (g)
- ―
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 1-6
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Worn around the edge; fractured along the channel on the reverse, damaging in particular the central part of the lines in the legend; obliterated on the left-hand side of the obverse and the right-hand side of the reverse.
Dating
- Date
- 11th C., second half
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Aristocracy
- Issuer
- Leo Amnos
Milieu: Aristocracy
Gender: Male
- Place of origin
- ―
- Find place
- ―
- Find date
- ―
- Find circumstances
- ―
- Modern location
- Paris (France )
- Institution and repository
- Bibliothèque nationale de France , Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques
- Collection and inventory
- Zacos BnF 37
- Acquisition
-
Gift of Janet Zacos, 1998
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
- ―
Obverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Iconography with inscription in columns.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Bust of saint Theodore, in military garb; on either side of the image, inscription in columns.
- Decoration
- Circle of dots.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Reverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Linear legend of 4 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Circle of dots; a pearl flanked by dashes precedes the legend on a separate line; a crosslet precedes the beginning of the legend on a same line.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Edition
Apparatus
2: Le prénom pourrait être recontruit en Λέοντ[α], selon le sceau Zacos BnF 38, appartenant vraisemblablement au même personnage.
Legend and translation
Ὁ ἅγιος Θεώδορος. / + Κύριε βοήθει Λέοντι βεστάρχῃ το Ἀμνῷ.
Saint Theodore. Lord aid Leo Amnos, vestarches.
References
- Edition(s)
- Unpublished
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references